Denis abruptly fired Brooks from the troupe by telling her in front of the other members that "I am dismissing you from the company because you want life handed to you on a silver salver." The words left a strong impression on Brooks when she drew up an outline for a planned autobiographical novel in 1949, "The Silver Salver" was the title she gave to the tenth and final chapter. Denis boiled over one day two years later, however, and St. A long-simmering personal conflict between Brooks and St. This event had a major influence on Brooks's life and career, causing her to say in later years that she was incapable of real love, and that this man "must have had a great deal to do with forming my attitude toward sexual pleasure.For me, nice, soft, easy men were never enough - there had to be an element of domination." (When Brooks at last told her mother of the incident, many years later, her mother suggested that it must have been Louise's fault for "leading him on." )īrooks began her entertainment career as a dancer, joining the Denishawn modern dance company in 1922. None of this protected her nine-year old daughter Louise from sexual abuse at the hands of a neighborhood predator.
Born in Cherryvale, Kansas, Louise Brooks was the daughter of Leonard Porter Brooks, a lawyer, who was usually too busy with his practice to discipline his children, and an artistic mother who determined that any "squalling brats she produced could take care of themselves." Myra Rude was a talented pianist who played the latest Debussy and Ravel for her children, inspiring them with a love of books and music.
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